Items designed for the British Transport Commission

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1953 - 1964

Charles Hasler worked as a freelance designer producing posters for the British Transport Commission from the 1940s to the 1960s, during which time he was also a consultant for the printing company Waterlow & Sons Ltd for whom he designed their house-style. Between 1942 and 1951, Hasler was an exhibition designer for the Ministry of Information and the Central Office of Information. He worked on displays such as ‘Dig For Victory’, ‘Make Do and Mend’ and ‘Nation and the Child’. After the war, he became a senior designer and chairman of the Typographic Panel for the Festival of Britain in 1951. Hasler also designed covers, layouts and occasionally contributed articles for publications such as The Penrose Annual, Architectural Review, and The Complete Imbiber (vols 4 - 12, 1961-1971) for Vista Books, and various companies' trade literature as well as many smaller commissions for company logos. He wrote and published articles about typography and printing technique (both contemporary and historical, particularly Victorian colour printing) and in 1979 his 'The Royal Arms: its graphic and decorative development', a comprehensive work on the development of the styles and decoration of crests in Britain, was published by Jupiter Books.

A number of small booklets for the British Transport Commission, on themes relating to transport and railways, published by the Shenval Press. Also a series of leaflet guides to tourist areas of Britain, produced to accompany short films issued by the British Transport Commission, printed by The Curwen Press. Miscellaneous other publications, including private view invitations. This is an example of Charles Hasler's own design work. He was a freelance graphic designer around the middle of the twentieth century. He worked for a number of clients, including - in this case - the British Transport Commission.

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, Charles Hasler, 1908-1992

Copyright Status: Copyright in the works (booklets and invitations) produced by the BTC will be Crown Copyright, including typefaces created by Hasler, as well as text and images created for the publications. In these cases, copyright will last for 50 years from publication and depending upon the date of the booklet, some of the publications will no longer be in copyright. All layouts by Hasler will be out of copyright. It is important to note that there may be some instances where the booklets include pre-existing art works, used under licence. In these cases, the copyright is still likely to be owned by the individual rights holder. The copyright in the British Transport Films leaflets and booklets is also likely to be Crown Copyright. Ownership of Rights: Crown Copyright for the BTC booklets and probably for BTF booklets; individual authors for additional illustrations, text etc. : For use of Crown Copyright works still in copyright and to check status of BTF booklets, users will need to apply for a click use licence from Office for Public Sector Information www.opsi.gov.uk.For use of works by individual authors which are included in the publications, permission will need to be sought from them, or if the works are orphan works, due diligence and a risk managed approach is recommended depending upon the envisaged usage.